Overview
- MINISFORUM announced the AI Agent NAS N5 MAX‑P495 and the AI Mini Workstation MS‑S1 MAX‑P495 at IFA in Berlin on Friday, Sept. 4, 2026.
- Both systems use AMD’s Ryzen AI MAX+ PRO 495 APU and are rated at up to 131 TOPS of AI compute with support for up to 192GB of unified memory and as much as 160GB allocable to graphics.
- The N5 MAX‑P495 pairs that compute with large local storage and can be configured to hold up to 200TB, positioning it as a backend for persistent workloads such as retrieval‑augmented generation, embeddings, databases, and long‑running agents.
- The MS‑S1 MAX‑P495 is a compact, rack‑scalable compute frontend built for low‑latency real‑time inference and creative or professional workflows, with expansion options and connectivity for multi‑device edge deployments.
- MINISFORUM is demoing the devices in Berlin but has not disclosed retail pricing or broad availability, leaving independent benchmarks, commercial timing, and confirmed street prices pending while the move to local‑first AI aims to reduce cloud cost and data exposure.